WeatherTech Sportscar Championship

While most IMSA teams and drivers have been preparing for the Continental Tire Monterey Grand Prix at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca next weekend, others were forced to plan last week for one of the strongest storms in history. After developing into the second-strongest Atlantic hurricane by wind speed (185 mph) on record, Hurricane Irma swept through the Caribbean, moving north across the southeaster...

Sports car fans hoping to see Team Penske's return to prototype racing next month at Petit Le Mans might have to wait until January's Rolex 24 At Daytona. Team president Tim Cindric says the plan, announced by Roger Penske in August, where Acura Team Penske would use a stock ORECA 07-Gibson WEC P2 at IMSA's 10-hour season finale as a warm-up for its Rolex 24 debut, is now in jeopardy. "We still h...

Porsche 919 Hybrid factory drivers Earl Bamber and Nick Tandy are returning to the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship for the Petit Le Mans season finale at Road Atlanta on Oct. 7, joining the Porsche GT Team for their first drive in the 911 RSR. Bamber will share the No. 912 Porsche 911 RSR with Gimmi Bruni and Laurens Vanthoor, while Tandy will join Patrick Pilet and Dirk Werner in the No....

Father and son Ian and Simon Dawson have announced plans to field a new LMP2 racecar in the WeatherTech Championship Prototype class beginning next season. Hasbro, the company behind the "Transformers" toy, television and movie franchise, will join them for the creation of the D3+Transformers Racing Team, which is targeting a three-year program. "From the minute we met the Hasbro people, we knew ...

IMSA has reacted with enthusiasm to the announcement Friday that the FIA World Endurance Championship will return to Sebring International Raceway with a race of its own alongside the IMSAâs WeatherTech SportsCar Championship in 2019. The March 15-16 weekend will now feature IMSAâs WeatherTech SportsCar Championshipâs Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring Fueled by Fresh From Florida followed by a 12-h...

Stevenson Motorsports has announced it will cease racing operations following the IMSA season-ending Petit Le Mans at Road America on Oct. 7. "After 15 years of racing professionally, the difficult decision to remove ourselves from motorsports competition is nothing less than heartfelt," said team owner Johnny Stevenson. "We regret to inform you all that we are ceasing racing operations following...

One of the big names in IMSA's Daytona Prototype international silly season could be taken off the board if Filipe Albuquerque fills the vacant seat at Action Express Racing. The upcoming switch from Action Express Racing to Acura Team Penske for defending IMSA Prototype champion Dane Cameron has created a vacancy among the team's two-car Cadillac DPi-V.R effort. While it's unclear whether his re...

The on-track exchange between Lexus driver Sage Karam and Acura driver Katherine Legge during Sunday's Michelin GT Challenge at Virginia International Raceway has led to escalating tensions between drivers in both camps. Karam's 3GT Racing entry and Legge's Michael Shank Racing car made side-to-side contact on the long run down VIR's back straight, and twice more at the following corner where the...

The number 13 was definitely unlucky for some on Sunday at Virginia International Raceway as a clean finish for the top three in GT Le Mans turned into a smackdown where contact handed an unexpected win to the No. 3 Corvette Racing C7.R driven by Antonio Garcia and Jan Magnussen. Contact with 13 minutes left on the clock for the leading No. 25 BMW Team RLL M6 driven by Alexander Sims â a car that...

Ford Chip Ganassi Racing's Joey Hand reached deep down when it mattered in qualifying for Sunday's Michelin GT Challenge at VIR as the Californian made a statement with pole in the No. 66 GT. Hand's lap of 1m40.211s knocked Alexander Sims in the No. 25 BMW Team RLL M6 off the GT Le Mans pole by a decent margin (+0.204s) and also kept Sims' teammate John Edwards at bay in the No. 24 BMW (+0.230s)....

Skipping a few rounds of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship hasn't slowed Risi Competizione and its Ferrari 488 driven by Toni Vilander and Giancarlo Fisichella. The Finnish/Italian duo were fast from the moment practice began at Virginia International Raceway on Friday, and with their session-leading pace Saturday morning just prior to qualifying, the rest of the GT Le Mans class could ...

Ford Chip Ganassi Racing's Dirk Mueller was preparing to close the second and final practice session of the day atop the standing at VIR, but those plans changed in the dying moments of the outing as Corvette Racing and BMW Team RLL displaced the No. 67 GT. Corvette's Antonio Garcia dipped below last year's IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship pole (1m41.323s) in the No. 3 C7.R to give the fac...

Tommy Milner took control of the opening practice session for this weekend's Michelin GT Challenge at Virginia International Raceway as the American pushed the No. 4 Corvette Racing C7.R to a lap of 1m42.341s around the 3.2-mile road course. The yellow Corvette edged the No. 67 Ford Chip Ganassi Racing GT driven by Richard Westbrook (+0.103s) and the returning Risi Competizione Ferrari 488 pilote...